Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI)

Our Title 1 program utilizes Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI). This is a supplementary reading program developed by Fountas and Pinnell to provide intensive instruction in reading and writing. The typical LLI lesson is structured and fast-paced. The lesson includes reading texts, writing, and phonics. Students have the chance to process new books almost every day and write about experiences related to their stories. Children bring books home to read a home to increase their fluency, comprehension, word recognition, and confidence as a young reader.

Sonday System 1

The Sonday System 1 guides beginning reading, writing, and spelling instruction, reading intervention, instruction for English Language Learners (ELL), and is highly effective in the Response to Intervention model.

Skills Taught:

• Review of Pre-Reading skills.
• Phonics using vowels, vowel pairs, and blends.
• Spelling practice throughout basic lessons.
• Rules for language structure.
• Reading fluency.
• Handwriting.
• Vocabulary.
• Comprehension.
• Independent practice with companion workbooks.

Sonday System 2

The Sonday System 2 guides intermediate reading, writing, and spelling instruction, reading intervention, instruction for English Language Learners (ELL), and is highly effective in the Response to Intervention model. The Sonday System 2 is a continuation of Sonday System 1 and guides the instruction for intermediate reading and intervention with emphasis on multi-syllabic words, prefixes, and suffixes.

Skills Taught:

• Syllable Types and Syllable Division.
• Greek, Latin, and Anglo Saxon prefixes, suffixes, and roots.
• Spelling practice throughout lessons.
• Building reading skills for longer passages.
• Independent practice with companion workbooks.

Explode the Code/Beyond the Code

Explode the Code is a research-based program geared to improving literacy with direct, systematic, phonics instruction. The program is built to teach essential literacy skills needed for reading success: phonological awareness, decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and spelling..

Guided Reading

Guided reading is an instructional approach that involves a teacher working with small, flexible groups of beginning readers. The teacher helps students learn to use reading strategies, such as context clues, letter and sound knowledge, and syntax or word structure, as they read a text or book that is unfamiliar to them. The goal of guided reading is for students to use these strategies independently on their way to becoming fluent, skilled readers.

The steps for a guided reading lesson are:

Before reading: Set the purpose for reading, introduce vocabulary, make predictions, talk about the strategies good readers use.

During reading: Guide students as they read, provide wait time, give prompts or clues as needed by individual students, such as "Try that again. Does that make sense? Look at how the word begins."

After reading: Strengthen comprehension skills and provide praise for strategies used by students during the reading.